Sunday, May 23, 2010

Cold Fire saves life in Texas

A few weeks ago in a small town in Texas, a truck rolled over a car. The driver of the car escaped, but the passenger was trapped, with two broken legs, broken collar bone, lacerations and more. The car was on fire and he was trapped. The first responders were a pair of rookies in a brush truck. They grabbed a 2.5 gallon extinguisher that had Cold Fire in it. By now, the flames were in the passenger compartment, burning the seat he was on, the dash, the headliner, and flames were roaring out of the car. He sprayed the victim with the Cold Fire, then went back to the truck to hook up his hose, which took 8 minutes. They finally got the fire out, and use d the ‘jaws of life’ to extricate him. But because the firefighter thought to spray the victim with Cold Fire, the only burns he suffered was a small first degree burn on his arm.